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Show Woman Who Befriended Jew Is Rewarded by Refugee NEW YORK A woman who sheltered shel-tered a Jew when the Nazis overran his native Latvia has been rewarded by the grateful refugee. The story began in Latvia In 1941. Simon Mirkin, his younger sister and their parents were clapped into a German slave labor camp for Jews near Riga. During a trip to Riga on a labor project, Mirkin met Mrs. Olga Danos, 44, of the Russian Orthodox faith, who made her living as a dressmaker for the wives of Nazi officials. Mrs. Danos arranged for him and his family to live with her. After the war Mirkin married and came to the United States. But he never forgot his benefactress. Recently Re-cently Mrs. Danos arrived by ship as a displaced person sponsored by the Mirkins with whom she will live |